From the frontiers of technology, a look at new ways of shaping and forming materials.
The electron beam giving heat 10,000 times as intense as the electric arc; explosives for slapping metals into shape; lost wax, a 5,000-year-old process brought up to date; the plasma torch for cutting new materials. All new processes, available now. But how-many are being used?
Commentary by Derek Cooper.
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